Make dumb fan smart | Home Assistant | Page 1

golden viper May 13, 2026, 9:38 PM

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OK. looking for smarter people than myself.
I have the following fan. Is there a z-wave or zigbee board I can wire up to it and make it smart?

kind acorn May 14, 2026, 1:02 AM

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I have a simple fan that points at my network rack that I connected a smart plug to. I have the fan settings set to on and the smart plug turns on or off when i need it.

golden viper May 14, 2026, 2:49 AM

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I'm striving to be able to have the ability to change fan speeds through Home Assistant on this particular fan. I also have a different fan blowing in my network rack connected to a smart plug 🙂

golden viper May 14, 2026, 3:12 AM

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I asked AI. It stated that modifying this fan was danagerous. Should only use smart plug and the fan should remember last fan speed state

kindred quartz May 14, 2026, 6:39 AM

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Opening any device is going to be "dangerous", at least from a liability standpoint.

But yeah, I would use a smart plug (I think Shelly makes a z-wave plug), and start researching replacements now with built in smarts so when this one eventually needs to be replaced, you won't be caught off guard

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